Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles

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This book celebrates the work and contribution of Professor Janet Burton to medieval monastic studies in Britain. Burton has fundamentally changed approaches to the study of religious foundations in regional contexts (Yorkshire and Wales), placing importance on social networks for monastic structures and female Cistercian communities in medieval Britain; moreover, she has pioneered research on the canons and their place in medieval English and Welsh societies. This Festschrift comprises contributions by her colleagues, former students and friends – leading scholars in the field – who engage with and develop themes that are integral to Burton’s work. The rich and diverse collection in the present volume represents original work on religious life in the British Isles from the twelfth to the sixteenth century as homage to the transformative contribution that

Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Introduction
Part I: Monastic and religious orders in Britain
1. Cistercian histories in late medieval England, and beyond - James Clark
2. ‘Like a mother between father and sons.’ The role of the prior in later medieval
English monasteries - Martin Heale
3. Formed by Word and Example: the Training of Novices in Fourteenth-Century Dublin - Colmán Ó Clabaigh
4. Strata Florida: a former Welsh Cistercian Abbey and its future - David Austin
Part II: Religious and laity
5. The World of Bishops in Religious Orders in Medieval Ireland 1050–1230 - Edel Bhreathnach
6. Art, architecture, piety and patronage at Rievaulx Abbey, c.1300–1539 - Michael Carter
7. The Last Days of Bridlington Priory - Claire Cross
8. Galwegians and Gauls: Aelred of Rievaulx’s Dramatisation of Xenophobia
in Relatio de Standardo - Marsha Dutton
9. The cloister of the soul: Robert Grosseteste and the monastic houses of his diocese - Philippa Hoskin
10. The Abbey of St Benet of Holme and the English Rising of 1381 - Andrew Prescott
Part III: Women in the medieval monastic world
11. Looking for medieval female religious in Britain and Ireland: sources, methodologies
and pitfalls - Kimm Curran
12. ‘As for a nun’: corrodies, nunneries and the laity - Brian Golding
13. Preaching to nuns in the Norwich Diocese on the eve of the Reformation: the evidence from
visitation records - Veronica O'Mara
Bibliography of Janet Burton's publications
Abbreviations to the index
Index
Tabula Gratulatoria

Sujets

• Essays
• Medieval
• Histoire
• Edad Media
• Honour
• Monasticism
• Middle Ages
• British
• Great Britain
• Janet
• Isles
• History
• Monastic
• Life
• Burton
• Europe

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• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 octobre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786833204
• Langue: English

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MONASTIC LIFE IN THE MEDIEVAL BRITISH ISLES
MONASTIC LIFE IN THE MEDIEVAL BRITISH ISLES
Essays in Honour of Janet Burton
EDITED BY
KAREN STÖBER, JULIE KERR AND EMILIA JAMROZIAK
© The Contributors, 2018
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Cover image: Byland Abbey, drawing by Dani Leiva.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Introduction
Karen Stöber and Emilia Jamroziak
Part I: Monastic and religious orders in Britain
1. Cistercian histories in late medieval England, and beyond
James Clark
2. ‘Like a mother between father and sons.’ The role of the prior in later medieval English monasteries
Martin Heale
3. Formed by word and example: the training of novices in fourteenth-century Dublin
Colmán Ó Clabaigh
4. Strata Florida: a former Welsh Cistercian Abbey and its future
David Austin
Part II: Religious and laity
5. The world of bishops in religious orders in medieval Ireland, 1050–1230
Edel Bhreathnach
6. Art, architecture, piety and patronage at Rievaulx Abbey, c .1300–1538
Michael Carter
7. The last days of Bridlington Priory
Claire Cross
8. Galwegians and Gauls: Aelred of Rievaulx’s dramatisation of xenophobia in Relatio de Standardo
Marsha L. Dutton
9. The cloister of the soul: Robert Grosseteste and the monastic houses of his diocese
Philippa Hoskin
10. The abbey of St Benet of Holme and the English rising of 1381
Andrew Prescott
Part III: Women in the medieval monastic world
11. Looking for medieval female religious in Britain and Ireland: sources, methodologies and pitfalls
Kimm Curran
12. ‘As for a nun’: corrodies, nunneries and the laity
Brian Golding
13. Preaching to nuns in the Norwich diocese on the eve of the Reformation: the evidence from visitation records
Veronica O’Mara
Select Bibliography
Bibliography of Janet Burton’s publications
Tabula Gratulatoria
Notes
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
T he editors are indebted to the help and encouragement of many people in the making of this book. We would like to thank the University of Wales Press and especially Llion Wigley and Siân Chapman for their support and patience throughout this project. We are grateful to our contributors for producing their chapters cheerfully despite the tight deadlines and strict word limit, and to all those who have participated in the Tabula Gratulatoria .
Our thanks to Dani Leiva for his evocative drawing of Byland Abbey which is on the front cover and which Dani drew specifically for this Festschrift. Byland Abbey holds a special place in Janet’s heart and in her research, making this a fitting tribute. We are indebted to William Marx, Our Man in Lampeter, for without his conspiratorial help and support this project would not have been possible. Throughout, William has provided us with the necessary names, facts and figures, and he moreover compiled the list of Janet’s publications – no mean feat. We thank Paul Watkins for the photograph of Janet in the Founders’ Library. Paul managed to dupe Janet into posing for this picture: we commend his guile.
Finally, we would like to thank everybody who has helped to keep this project a secret from Janet, allowing us to surprise her with the presentation of this book.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Frontispiece: Janet Burton Photograph: Paul Watkins.
FIGURE 1: The foundation history of Forde Abbey as preserved in the 18 early fifteenth-century genealogy of the Courtenay earls of Devon, now held at Powderham Castle (fol. 5v). © Powderham Estate and Exeter Digital Humanities.
FIGURE 2: The former monastery of Strata Florida (red shading) 55 in its topography looking westwards towards the Irish Sea. With kind permission of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
FIGURE 3: The Great Abbey site. Property of the Strata Florida Trust, 57 in the darker shade of grey. © David Austin.
FIGURE 4: What is currently known of the abbey precinct as redesigned 58 in 1184 and functioning at its height in the thirteenth century. © David Austin.
FIGURE 5: Speculative plan of a possible earlier monastery under 60 Strata Florida Cistercian Abbey. © David Austin.
FIGURE 6: Strata Florida House and designed landscape in 1765. 62 © David Austin.
FIGURE 7: Bishop Gilbert of Limerick’s De statu ecclesiae , Durham 72 Cathedral Library, MS B.II.35, fol. 36v. © Durham Cathedral Library.
FIGURE 8: Rievaulx Abbey, presbytery, c .1220. 90 Photograph: Michael Carter.
FIGURE 9: Rievaulx Abbey, fragmentary sculpture of Christ in Majesty, 93 c .1260–70. Photograph: Historic England.
FIGURE 10: Rievaulx Abbey, ex-situ stonework inscribed 95 SCS Williamus Abbas from the shrine of Abbot William. Photograph: Historic England.
FIGURE 11: Rievaulx Abbey, limestone relief sculpture of 96 the Annunciation to the Virgin, c .1500, above the entrance to the late medieval abbatial lodging. Photograph: Michael Carter.
ABBREVIATIONS
BL
London, British Library
Bodl.
Oxford, Bodleian Library
Burton, Monastic Order
Janet Burton, The Monastic Order in Yorkshire, 1069–1215 (Cambridge, 1999)
Cal. Close Rolls
H. C. Maxwell Lyte et al. (eds), Calendar of Close Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office, AD 1227–1509 , 61 vols (London, 1902–63)
Cal. Papal Registers
W. H. Bliss, C. Johnson, J. A. Twemlow and M. J. Haren (eds), Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland : papal letters (London, 1893–in progress)
Chron. Melsa
E. Bond (ed.), Chronica Monasterii de Melsa a fundatione usque ad annum 1396, auctore Thoma de Burton, Abbate , RS, 43, 3 vols (London, 1866–8)
Giraldus Cambrensis Opera
J. S. Brewer, J. F. Dimock and G. F. Warner (eds), Giraldi Cambrensis Opera , 8 vols, RS (London, 1861–91)
JMMS
The Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies
Mon. Ang .
William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum , J. Caley, H. Ellis and B. Bandinel (eds), 6 vols in 8 (London, 1817–30)
ODNB
Colin Matthews and Brian Harrison, Lawrence Goldman and David Cannadine (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , 60 vols (Oxford, 2004); online version 2005 with updates, www.oxforddnb.com/
OMT
Oxford Medieval Texts
PL
J. P. Migne et alia (eds), Patrologia cursus completes, series Latina , 221 vols (Paris, 1844–64)
RCAHMW
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales
RS
Rolls Series
TNA
The National Archives
VCH
The Victoria History of the Counties of England and Wales
CONTRIBUTORS
David Austin is professor emeritus at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and director of the Strata Florida Research Project.
Edel Breathnach is CEO of The Discovery Programme.
Michael Carter is senior properties historian at English Heritage.
James Clark is professor of history at the University of Exeter and associate dean for research and knowledge transfer.
Claire Cross is professor emeritus at the University of York.
Kimm Curran is an affiliate researcher in the Medical Humanities Research Centre at the University of Glasgow. She is publicity officer and on the steering committee for the History of Women Religious in Britain and Ireland.
Marsha L. Dutton is emeritus professor of English at Ohio University and executive editor of Cistercian Publications.
Brian Golding was formerly reader at the University of Southampton.
Martin Heale is reader in medieval history at the University of Liverpool and director of Liverpool Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Philippa Hoskin is professor of medieval studies at the University of Lincoln.
Colmán Ó Clabaigh O.S.B. is a Benedictine monk of Glenstal Abbey, Co. Limerick.
Veronica O’Mara is professor of medieval English literature at the University of Hull.
Andrew Prescott is professor of digital humanities (English language and linguistics) at the University of Glasgow.

Janet Burton
INTRODUCTION
Karen Stöber and Emilia Jamroziak
T he present book has come into being to pay tribute to a very special person, scholar and teacher, Professor Janet Burton. Janet graduated from Westfield College, University of London in 1973 where she was taught by two distinguished medieval historians, Christopher Brooke and Rosalind Hill. After London, she completed her DPhil in the Department of History and Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York. Her thesis on the development of monasticism in Yorkshire in the century and a half after the Norman invasion of England was supervised by Professor Barrie Dobson. Janet subsequently worked for several years as an archivist, first at what was then known as The Borthwick Institute of Historical Research at York and thereafter at the Ceredigion Record Office in Aberystwyth, an experience that